The British government has developed a Google Earth map detailing the likely impacts of a warming of 4 degrees globally. Result striking and instructive.
The more things change, the more things stay the same. The EC’s long and slow march towards pan-European eCall took another important step forward recently. But as always, hurdles and uncertainties remain, making it hard for the automotive industry to distinguish fact from fiction.
The IAB Launches Madrid locator Geospatial industrial parks
The Community Enterprise Confederation and the Chamber of Commerce of Madrid (2nd industrial area of Spain) have launched a web portal to industrial companies: Madridindustrial.es . The portal offers free assistance in addition, a locator Geospatial industrial parks.
In the coming months we expect a strong increase in the share of mobile phones with GPS modules. This is apparent from an analysis of the iSuppli market research company. Then one expects by 2011 a share of almost 80 percent of units with a GPS receiver.
Volvo OnCall raises, increased security and not just
The concept of security has been for years the distinctive Volvo. In this perspective, the Swedish home raises OnCall hours and offers a modern interpretation of the service, more closely to customer needs and demand for integration of wireless communication in cars.
Europe plans to mandate ADAS on vehicles to cut road deaths
The European Commission has adopted an ambitious Road Safety Programme which aims to cut road deaths in Europe in half in the next decade. The programme sets out a mix of initiatives, at European and national level, focussing on improving vehicle safety, the safety of infrastructure and road users’ behaviour.
Telematics is the logistics of freight forwarders and transport operators and more important: debiting of tolls, automatic emergency calls and vehicle maintenance - across networked electronic monitor is used.
Telecom Italy and Magneti Marelli have created a consortium for the new traffic service which aims to develop and market a technological platform open with constant connection to information services and entertainment that can help guide choices (ecodriving.)
Safe landing when the cabin is 3DSafe landing when the cabin is 3D
Out that there is dense fog or snow storm for aircraft of the future will no longer be a problem landing. A new technology developed by U.S. giant Honeywell plays on the screen of the cockpit the surrounding area in 3D.
Ryan with a GPS control bus stops to curb Gongchesiyong disorder
Recently, Ruian City, the monitoring center of public management have taken on a new monitoring project - the 23 buses that are formally included in the scope of GPS monitoring, the bus all the tracks in the electronic screen at a glance, any illegal traffic and parking situation in the first examination.
Sistema acquired a controlling stake M2M Telematics
According to the press service of Russian Space Agency, Sistema acquired a 51% stake in OOO M2M Telematics for $ 20 million sellers were the founders of the company Alexander and Igor Gurko Grushelevsky, as well as NGOs Space Device.
Return of military horses: Afghanistan has no competition
When reached in 2001, the U.S. special forces command in Afghanistan to help the Northern Alliance, were baffled. None of the available means of transport has not been able to overcome the mountain gorges, through which troops should get base for the Taliban.
Russia's mobile phone manufacturers with import bans threatened large, they should their equipment not Russian satellite navigation system GLONASS compatible do it for.
1500 users interviewed social, about the risks associated with services such as Foursquare and Gowalla. More than half fear stalkers, thieves and invaders of privacy. But these tools increasingly used
Pirates are using technology to manage their operations
In 2009, do the pirates some 92 process, which resulted in detention of about 268 sailors, and the growing interest in how the organization and processing of these groups operating in Somali territorial waters and international, which is gently, after the fact of kidnapping oil tanker Saudi Arabia's huge «Sirius Star», which has a length of 330 meters, the equivalent weight of the weight of three aircraft carriers, and was carrying more than a quarter of Saudi Arabia's daily exports of oil, or about two million barrels of oil, valued at 100 million dollars.
The most common ADAS technologies are lane departure warning and/or prevention, forward collision warning, side view assistance (also known as blind spot detection), and adaptive headlights.
In the last year, the country's carriers have been allocated up to 15% of their capital to increase safety and minimize theft of goods when passing through the roads of Mexico.
The [financial] crisis helped restructure the telematics services market in Russia
The [financial] crisis helped restructure the telematics services market in Russia. Fly-by-night companies and those without a clear vision of their business strategies or modern technologies disappeared. Serious companies able to react flexibly and adequately, with offers able to meet the most urgent and basic needs, grew and progressed.
The Euro NCAP is launching a label for security technologies
The Euro NCAP, an independent body that assesses the safety of new cars, announced Tuesday, July 13 launch of a label, Euro NCAP Advanced dedicated security technology embedded in vehicles.
The GPS system has since the mid-90s in operation since the turn of the millennium is off the artificial signal loss, so it can determine the position of receivers to about ten meters exactly. Even today, GPS is strictly controlled by the U.S. military, so that the Russian government counterpart GLONASS aufmotzt the end of 2010 with € 1.8 billion - the technology is still in the Cold War.
Increase the efficiency of the fleet - with GPS tracking
GPS tracking will facilitate the professional fleet ManagementWer know exactly where the vehicles of their own fleets are on the road comes to a location not pass.
